ABSTRACT

The judicial arm of government is the third organ of government besides the legislature and the executive, the major functions of this arm includes setting of cases, pushing the guilty people and   also   interpreting   the   constitution   of   the   land   as   well   as administration   of   justice. I was motivated to embark on this research because delays can reduce the quality and reliability of evidence, public sector and justice sector lack integrity, denied justice warrants, Prevalent (manual) system of court scheduling which is inaccurate, inefficient and time consuming. The system was achieved by developing a platform for real time automated daily court scheduling system, build a database structure used to store data of accused and defendant, create a module for registration of court cases, design a platform that record search for court cases, design a platform that capture case judging system, create a platform that view registered court cases, create a platform that view registered version of court cases. This research was realized through the adoption of primary and secondary sources of data collection which includes interview, observation, questionnaire, the internet and journals and the adoption of spiral model. The system is implemented by using VisualBasic.Net and Microsoft Access as the database.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page                                                                                                                    i

Certification                                                                                                                ii

Dedication                                                                                                                 iii

Acknowledgments                                                                                                     iv

Table of Contents                                                                                                        v

Abstract                                                                                                                       vii

CHAPTER 1               INTRODUCTION

1.1              Background of the study                                                                                1

1.2       Statement of the Problem                                                                                 4

1.3       Aim Objectives of the Study                                                                            5

1.4       Significance of the Study                                                                                 5

1.5       Scope of the Study                                                                                          6

CHAPTER 2               LITERATURE REVIEW

2.0       Overview of Related Literature                                                                                    7

2.1       Judgment and Decision Making                                                                     7

2.1.1    Characteristics of Decision-Making                                                                 7

2.2       Significance of Trial Procedure: Fundamentals of Fair and

Impartial Trial                                                                                                  10

2.3       The importance of fairness and impartiality in the trial process                                   10

2.4       Efficient Speedy Trial and the Prospect of Better Protection

of Fairness, Impartiality and Human Rights                                                     13

CHAPTER 3             RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS

3.1       Research Methodology                                                                                                19

3.1.1    Choice of the research methodology                                                               19

3.2       Overview of System Analysis                                                                          21

3.2.1    Analysis of the existing system                                                                                    21

3.2.1.1 Weakness of the existing system                                                                     22

3.3       Method of Data Collection                                                                              22

3.4       Data Flow Diagram                                                                                          24

3.5       Use Case Diagram of the Proposed System                                                   24

3.6       High Level Model of the Proposed System                                                   26

3.7       Class Diagram of the Proposed System                                                          26

3.8       Activity Diagram of the Proposed System                                                     27

3.9       Sequence Diagram of the Proposed System                                                   28

3.10     Analysis of the proposed system                                                                    29

CHAPTER 4               SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

4.0       Overview of System Design                                                                            32

4.1       System Specification                                                                                       32

4.1.1     General system functions                                                                               32

4.1.2    Main menu specification                                                                                 33

4.1.3    Input form specification                                                                                 33

4.1.4    Output form specification                                                                                36

4.1.5    Database table specification                                                                            37

4.2       Software Design                                                                                              37

4.2.1    Architecture of the proposed system                                                               37

4.2.2    Operational mechanism architecture for the new system                                             38

4.2.3    Main menu design                                                                                           39

4.2.4    Input form design                                                                                            40

4.2.5    Output form design                                                                                          43

4.2.6    Process Design                                                                                                 44

4.2.7    Database table design                                                                                      45

4.3       Choice of Programming Language                                                                   46

4.4       System Implementation                                                                                               48

4.4.1    Main menu implementation                                                                             49

4.4.2    Input form implementation                                                                              49

4.4.3    Output form implementation                                                                           54

4.4.4    Database table implementation                                                                                    57

CHAPTER 5               SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

5.1       Summary                                                                                                         59

5.3       Conclusion                                                                                                      60

5.3       Recommendations                                                                                           61

REFERENCES                                                                                                           60

APPENDIX A

Program Source Code                                                                                                  64

APPENDIX B

Program Output                                                                                                                       69